Now I have had a catch 22 situation, Timmy was too old to spay and yet still able to get pregnant. Of course since I had no males that are not desexed AND there is little or no contact between sets of rabbits that are not bonded, I thought I had a zero chance of Timmy having a litter.
Timmy is my baby baby, she and I have a wonderful relationship and she lives with Slipper who is around 13 years old and has been neutered like forever it seems. Well, its not MyLoveables fault (another member who is my friend) but it turns out that one of the little bunnies (Toula and Lou) she returned to me was in fact a boy. The boy had been diagnosed a girl many many times over by vets!!
Its not anyone's fault really. I have been meaning to get them spayed but more important health issues had to be paid for first.
Slipper had a tooth operation.
Bugsy had a huge amount of testing done to confirm his condition.
Jazz got spayed as she was reaching middle age and it was more of a pririty than the much younger Toula and Lou (8 months old).
Timmy had a nasty chest infection.
Rupert had an eye infection.
Angel got spayed.
As you can my vet bills got out of control and I never though tto get Toula and Lou spayed just yet.
This morning I check on my special old girl, now 7 years old and there are 3 live kits and 3 dead kits, it looks as if she had them on the wire and at the last minute built a nest for the 3 that survived. The deceased kits looked very healthy otherwise and seemed to have died of exposure even though it was a warm night and the hutch is super cosy and packed with hay and lined too.
Timmy's chest infections have meant that she is constantly monitored and not at all a suitable candidate for an anaesthetic and a spay.
It is only possible that Lou had a brief encounter with Timmy when I was cleaning the pens and Lou sneaked through an opening and jumped into Timmy pen. I vaguely remember something like this happening around a month ago.
It is very upsetting. I have just returned from the vets with Timmy and he was not too pleased either.
I feel irresponsible and quite down about this. The 3 kits are okay. Timmy cleared a health check and is eating and drinking LOTS and LOTS.
So I suppose its not all doom and gloom.
Poor Timmy though, its so unfair.
Timmy is my baby baby, she and I have a wonderful relationship and she lives with Slipper who is around 13 years old and has been neutered like forever it seems. Well, its not MyLoveables fault (another member who is my friend) but it turns out that one of the little bunnies (Toula and Lou) she returned to me was in fact a boy. The boy had been diagnosed a girl many many times over by vets!!
Its not anyone's fault really. I have been meaning to get them spayed but more important health issues had to be paid for first.
Slipper had a tooth operation.
Bugsy had a huge amount of testing done to confirm his condition.
Jazz got spayed as she was reaching middle age and it was more of a pririty than the much younger Toula and Lou (8 months old).
Timmy had a nasty chest infection.
Rupert had an eye infection.
Angel got spayed.
As you can my vet bills got out of control and I never though tto get Toula and Lou spayed just yet.
This morning I check on my special old girl, now 7 years old and there are 3 live kits and 3 dead kits, it looks as if she had them on the wire and at the last minute built a nest for the 3 that survived. The deceased kits looked very healthy otherwise and seemed to have died of exposure even though it was a warm night and the hutch is super cosy and packed with hay and lined too.
Timmy's chest infections have meant that she is constantly monitored and not at all a suitable candidate for an anaesthetic and a spay.
It is only possible that Lou had a brief encounter with Timmy when I was cleaning the pens and Lou sneaked through an opening and jumped into Timmy pen. I vaguely remember something like this happening around a month ago.
It is very upsetting. I have just returned from the vets with Timmy and he was not too pleased either.
I feel irresponsible and quite down about this. The 3 kits are okay. Timmy cleared a health check and is eating and drinking LOTS and LOTS.
So I suppose its not all doom and gloom.
Poor Timmy though, its so unfair.
